Stories of Breece D'j Pancake
“A gray ooze of light began to crest the eastern hills above the hollow and sift a blue haze through the black bowels of linking oak branches. A small wind shivered, and sycamore leaves chattered across the pavement but were stopped by the fighting-green orchard grass on the berm.
The opossum lay quietly by the roadside. She had found no dead farm animals in which to build her winter den; not even a fine empty hole. She packed her young across the road and into the leaves where the leathery carc...ass of another opossum lay. She did not pause for sniffing or sentiment.
Metalclick. She stopped. Fire. She hunkered in tight fear against the ground, her young clutching closer to her fur. Soft, rhythmless clumpings excited her blood, and she sank lower. With day and danger advancing, fear was blushing in her as she backed cautiously into higher brush. From her hiding, she watched a giant enemy scuffling on the blacktop, and a red glow bouncing brightly in the remnant of her night.
Bo felt this to be the royal time of his day—these sparse, solitary moments when the rest of the world was either going to bed or not up yet.MoreLess
The opossum lay quietly by the roadside. She had found no dead farm animals in which to build her winter den; not even a fine empty hole. She packed her young across the road and into the leaves where the leathery carc...ass of another opossum lay. She did not pause for sniffing or sentiment.
Metalclick. She stopped. Fire. She hunkered in tight fear against the ground, her young clutching closer to her fur. Soft, rhythmless clumpings excited her blood, and she sank lower. With day and danger advancing, fear was blushing in her as she backed cautiously into higher brush. From her hiding, she watched a giant enemy scuffling on the blacktop, and a red glow bouncing brightly in the remnant of her night.
Bo felt this to be the royal time of his day—these sparse, solitary moments when the rest of the world was either going to bed or not up yet.MoreLess
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